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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in-Chief, Abuja It is no longer news that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has made a decision by picking Morocco and Al Hilal Ladies football club of Saudi Arabia forward, Ghizlane Chebbak as the winner of the coveted CAF African Women’s Footballer of the Year 2025 title. At an elaborate CAF Awards ceremony held on Wednesday, November ...

*For commercial viability, sustainable growth By Harry Awurumibe, Editor-in- Chief,  Abuja Apparently dissatisfied with  the structural defects in the development and management of football in Nigeria, renowned FIFA-licensed intermediary, Ayodele Thomas, has tasked the Chairman of National Sports Commission (NSC) Mallam Shehu Dikko to urgently embark on structural reforms that will reposition Nigerian football for sustainable growth, global competitiveness, and ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor,  Abuja Bureau Nigeria’s dream of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup final in the United States of America (USA), Canada and Mexico is still alive as the Super Eagles walloped Gabon 4-1 in the first semi-final match of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Play-off decided this evening at Prince Héritier Moulay El Hassan Sports Complex ...

By Harry Awurumibe In less than 48 hours from the time of this report, the battle to earn the sole ticket to represent Africa in next year’s intercontinental play-off mini-tournament in Mexico will start as Nigeria’s senior male football team Super Eagles play the match of their lives in the first semi-final match of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) ...

By Harry Awurumibe Three years after claiming their first-ever bronze medal at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India after defeating Germany 3-2 on penalties, Nigeria’s U-17 women’s national team nicknamed the Flamingos, have continued to wobble and fumble out of two successive editions of the global junior women’s football tournament. Nigeria claimed her first-ever bronze medal at the ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Africa’s No.1 Women’s Football Journalist The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has appointed Fatou Ngum from Gambia as the centre referee for the first leg of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2026 qualifier between Benin Republic and and Nigeria scheduled for October 24, 2025, at the Stade de Kégué, Lomé in Togo, Prompt News ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor -in-Chief,  Abuja Never in recent memory  has a football match generated a lot of interest,  eliciting great debates and prompting mathematical calculations laced with several ‘ifs’, yet nobody can confidently predict how the group will end on the final Match Day than the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup African qualifier ties between host Nigeria and Group ...

By Harry Awurumibe, Abuja As uncertainties continue to surround the Elections into the board of the Gymnastics Federation of Nigeria, the National Sports commission, NSC, has been strongly commended for upholding the principle of transparency, due process and fair hearing among all stakeholders. This is according to Omowunmi Kafilat Olalere, a key Gymnastics stakeholder and a Presidential candidate for the ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief, Abuja Nigeria’s U’20 women’s football team Falconets, pipped hosts Rwanda’s She-Amavubi 1-0 in a 2026 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup second round, first leg qualifying match in Kigali on Sunday Sportsrev reports. Both teams fought hard on the pitch of the Kigali-Pele Stadium, located in the Nyamirambo district of the city, but there was no breakthrough ...

By Harry Awurumibe,  Editor-in-Chief,  Abuja Interim chairperson of United Ex-Super Falcons (Worldwid), the umbrella body of retired national women’s team players, Mrs. Patience Avre-Odeli has commended the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the prompt payment of the thirty percent (30%) of the One Million Dollars ($1 million) (approximately ₦1.5 billion) prize money for winning the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of ...